This time he’s returning with a more subtle mission: a museum art exhibition.

Stallone, who was at the fest in 2014 promoting his latest “Expendables” movie, will appear Saturday at Nice’s Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporaine to show off his work as a painter with pieces spanning five decades.

Some of Stallone’s past works — like 1975’s “Finding Rocky” — are inspired by his films.

Others have had pop-culture or personal references to Michael Jackson, James Dean or his ex, Brigitte Nielsen “I always felt that Michael Jackson was one of the great dichotomies,” Stallone mused of 2010’s “Untitled (Michael Jackson)” in an interview with German gallerist Mathias Rastorfer for one of his previous exhibitions at the Russian Museum.

“An illusionist even more than a singer . . . he created a character that wasn’t even him anymore . . . There was an evil side . . . a theatrical evil.”

Stallone, repped by Galerie Gmurzynska, pursued a career in art before acting and said it can take up to 15 years to complete a painting.

But, “the ones that I realize are just hopeless, I give to my brother,” Stallone once said.

Following the opening, there will be a VIP dinner with the mayor of Nice on the historic Place Massena.